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No idea how you arrived at that conclusion, every country in the world needs to do more including China, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of the US pointing fingers at China. Co2 lasts around 100 years in the atmosphere so our pollution from a century ago is still exists.
Yes our consumption has dropped since our peak in 1973 because of gas shortages spurred action, still we are are way behind in our efforts. We were the worst polluter in the past so of course there was room for improvement. Germany which is a good comparison as another industrialized county has half our per capita consumption.
We need to do our part and stop rolling back methane restrictions on oil rigs, increased mileage requirements on cars and more EV production. Many things we could be doing but it becomes a political fight to keep the status quo.
Only way to really cut back is have a super bug take out 4 billion+ peeps. Less peeps= less demand. And still the ramp up in heating will take place.
Nothing can be done to stop the heating. I can beam every person and car off the planet and the insane ramp up in heating will keep taking place. Only if i could move the planet 24.15 million miles away from the sun could it stop the heating.
24.15 million, eh? 24 million wouldn't quite do it?
The earth has been around far longer than man yet man thinks he can alter its changes.
It's an important part of the liberal's inflated ego. "We're gods so we have to give government all the power to save the world. And we're gods so we have everyone come here and anything less is cruelty to them".
24.15 million, eh? 24 million wouldn't quite do it?
That would be avg new dist from the sun with my Orbit figures. It would still vary. Or just swap stars with a smaller one of the same class and keep our orbit as is. The day will come our sun will act up and it will be over rover out past 3.55 billion years.
We need a new planet and there are millions to pick from if we can ever lick the time speed thing.
People don't realize how much power the US consumes because our new media across the board (Right and Left) do a horrible job of just explaining and comparing the actual numbers. I guarantee some here believe China uses much more power than the US because of the way stories in the news are written and told.
News media always uses narration and not just the factual numbers or figures to explain a situation or problem.
People don't realize how much power the US consumes because our new media across the board (Right and Left) do a horrible job of just explaining and comparing the actual numbers. I guarantee some here believe China uses much more power than the US because of the way stories in the news are written and told.
News media always uses narration and not just the factual numbers to figures to explain a situation or problem.
China does use more energy than the US, although not in per capita terms.
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No idea how you arrived at that conclusion, every country in the world needs to do more including China, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of the US pointing fingers at China. Co2 lasts around 100 years in the atmosphere so our pollution from a century ago is still exists.
Yes our consumption has dropped since our peak in 1973 because of gas shortages spurred action, still we are are way behind in our efforts. We were the worst polluter in the past so of course there was room for improvement. Germany which is a good comparison as another industrialized county has half our per capita consumption.
We need to do our part and stop rolling back methane restrictions on oil rigs, increased mileage requirements on cars and more EV production. Many things we could be doing but it becomes a political fight to keep the status quo.
how stupid does a person have to be.....increasing CO2 emissions...increases atmospheric CO2
in the past 50 years....China has increased it's CO2 emissions over 10 times greater
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You are ignoring the prior years before China, our per capita consumption is 3 times that of China and the highest in the world. We need to reduce our own consumption and stop pointing fingers.
China uses more coal today than the rest of the world combined. China uses more coal today than the world produced in 1980.
China used 678819 thousand short tons in 1980
China used 4603771 thousand short tons in 2019
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